Performing ethnocultural identity on the Sinophone Internet: testing the limits ofminzu

James Leibolda*a Department of Politics and Philosophy, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, AustraliaJames Leibold is currently a Senior Lecturer in Politics and Asian Studies at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia, and a Ph.D. graduate of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, USA. He is the author, most recently, of Ethnic Policy in China: Is Reform Inevitable? (Honolulu: East-West Center, 2013) and co-editor (with Chen Yangbin) of Minority Education in China: Balancing Unity and Diversity in an Era of Critical Pluralism (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2014); and (with Thomas Mullaney, Stéphane Gros and Eric Vanden Brussche), Critical Han Studies: The History, Representation and Identity of China's Majority (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012).Author's postal address: Department of Politics and Philosophy, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria 3086 Australia.